Mark 12:12 · KJV
“And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them: and they left him, and went their way.”
— Mark 12:12
This was the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?
And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in {his} words.
Mark 12 — Context
And have ye not read this scripture; The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner:
11This was the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?
12And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them: and they left him, and went their way.
13And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in {his} words.
14And when they were come, they say unto him, Master, we know that thou art true, and carest for no man: for thou regardest not the person of men, but teachest the way of God in truth: Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not?
Cross References
Mark 11:18
And the scribes and chief priests heard {it}, and sought how they might destroy him: for they feared him, because all the people was astonished at his doctrine.
John 7:44
And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him.
Mark 11:32
But if we shall say, Of men; they feared the people: for all {men} counted John, that he was a prophet indeed.
John 7:25
Then said some of them of Jerusalem, Is not this he, whom they seek to kill?
Matthew 22:22
The same day came to him the Sadducees, which say that there is no resurrection, and asked him,
John 7:30
Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.
Luke 20:19
And the chief priests and the scribes the same hour sought to lay hands on him; and they feared the people: for they perceived that he had spoken this parable against them.
Matthew 21:45-46
And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them.
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